Teaching patient safety to clinicians and medical students

T here is strong consensus about the need to improve quality and safety in health care by improving the health service design and focusing on health care delivery. The agenda, now worldwide, includes educating the health workforce about patient safety. How can clinical educators manage this demand for new knowledge and skills? Clinical teachers need to become acquainted with the literature and integrate patient safety learning into existing educational and training programmes. This paper describes how the Australian National Patient Safety Education Framework (ANPSEF) can be used to develop such programmes for students and clinicians, using a learning topic from the NPSEF. The Framework is freely available from the website.